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Useful Angus Information

At one time Angus was called Forfarshire. This was because the county seat is Forfar. However,
the county has been renamed. If you are having problems locating your Angus/Forfar ancestor this may
be why.

The county's ancient name was Angus, but was renamed
Forfarshire to link with Forfar being the county town. More recently,
the preference came to be for the ancient name, and it has so remained since.
The Victorian censuses you will find labelled Forfarshire, as that was
the official name during that period.

Angus is an area of 2,200 square kilometers.
Within this area one finds mountains, rugged cliffs, glens, rivers and seaside.
Visitors find turreted castles and ancient relics.
For people interested in shopping or town life, market and seaside towns
are available.

The Angus Archives contains about 800 years of Angus' written heritage.
The Angus Archives houses: royal charters, plans, school logs, letters,
diaries, etc. Also found therein are records from the Angus Burghs (all seven),
the Angus Council and various societies.

Useful Angus address:

If you are interested in what each library has you can either e-mail me or you can call or write
to the libraries themselves and they will send out brochures detailing what is in their library

Arbroath Library
Hil Terrace
Arbroath DD111AH
Opening Hours vary
However they open at 9:30a and close between 5-8 depending on the day.
If you are going feel free to contact me for the times and days.

List of contact addresses for various archives, maritime
organisations or institutions whose collections include the primary
documents required in tracing British Merchant and Royal Navy ships and
seamen. The Public Record Office,
Ruskin Avenue,
Kew,
Surrey, TW9 4DU
0181-876-3444

It was not until 1855 that births, deaths and marriages were
registered and certified in Scotland. Until then the only
recorded details of a marriage would be the entry in the
Parish Register. Whilst occasionally this might contain
substantial information, more usually it was nothing more
than a note of the names of those married together with the
date. If you want a copy of this you should be able to find
it on Scots Orgins
in the Web

Lookup Volunteers:

You are cordially invited to sign up to be an Angus Volunteer. We could
not possibly have enough wonderful people who are willing to help others to
find Angus ancestors. We would love to have your help.

Willing to help? What do you do?

You may have an old history book with an index and be willing to check to
see if someone's ancestor is listed. You might have Tax Lists, Census
Records, Courthouse Records, Death Records. Someone needs your information.

Would you be interested in typing an index from any one of the old Angus history
books? This would be a once and done, permanent help to all of us doing
research

New ANGUS Queries:
We have a new query board - it is now an all encompasing board at ancestry.com.
I hope you enjoy the new looka nd feel. Barb L.

The instructions are below:

1...Place ALL SURNAMES (within your query) in CAPS.
2...Enter your information exactly as you want it to appear.
3...Please, ANGUS QUERIES ONLY..
4...Please TURN OFF THE CAPS. It's hard to see the surnames if your whole
queryis in caps
5...No more then 3 surnames per query please. It makes it to hard to follow

The LDS puts the 1881 census on lineThe Church has announced "a searchable database of the 1881 British
Census, listing more than 30 million names, birth dates, addresses and
occupations that has been compiled on 25 compact discs." The collection,
available for only $33 through the Church, was produced in connection with
the Federation of Family History Societies in the United Kingdom. The
project took "11 years and more than 2.5 million man hours of volunteer
labor" to complete.

Library SourcesIt is identified as:
WWW Interface to Manuscript files in RLIN/Eureka:
The Library of Congress has made available this web site of
approximately 400,000 records from archival collections in
libraries, museums, state archives and historical societies
throughout North America.

MyFamily.comWant to have your family tree on the web but don't know HTML or how to get a page. MyFamily.com is one of the many places you could start. You could also research your family tree here as well